St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, Tacoma, Washington

06/07/2026

June 7, 2026

06/01/2026

Blessed Pride Month, to all who celebrate!
🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

“God is clearly more comfortable with diversity than we are, and God’s final goal and objective are much simpler. God and the entire cosmos are about two things: differentiation (people and things becoming themselves) and communion (living in supportive coexistence)…

Institutional religion tends to think of people as very simple; therefore, the law must be very complex to protect them in every situation. Jesus does the opposite: He treats people as very complex—different in religion, lifestyle, virtue, temperament, and success—and keeps the law very simple in order to bring them to God…

Jesus takes the risk of allowing people the freedom to be themselves and to love God according to the shape of their own heart, soul, body, and mind! Religion developed for the sake of social control, but Jesus doesn’t give us much grist for the social control mill. Jesus is asking a different set of questions, ones that take away our private agendas and remind us of the ways we have not yet begun to love. For Jesus, it is all about union—union with God, others, and what is, however it presents itself. We cannot let labels trip us up. We all belong, but how cleverly our moral pretenses prevent us from struggling with what is right in front of us! How ingeniously our ego protects itself from compassion and understanding…”
~Richard Rohr

05/31/2026

May 31, 2026 10:00 AM

05/26/2026

🌱 OPEN WEDNESDAY: 5.27!! 🌱

JACKSON STREET FOOD BANK will be open for food distribution WEDNESDAY MAY 27th from 5pm until 7pm. No ID or verification needed.

Come see what we can provide before you go to the grocery store. We have most pantry staples and you can then use your money to buy the extras that we can’t provide.

Corner of South 12th Street and Jackson Ave (near the Narrows Bridge) in west Tacoma. Entrance on Jackson Ave side of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church. We are part of the Nourish Pierce County Food Bank Network.

05/25/2026

Blessed Memorial Day: a day that calls forth our better angels to discern the Truth of God’s loving purposes for us, that we be a nation committed to real justice, to lasting peace, and to the uncompromising defense of human dignity, both at home and abroad. For those who have sacrificed everything toward that holy end, we raise our voice today in praise and prayer.

O Judge of the nations, we remember before you with grateful hearts the men and women of our country who in the day of decision ventured much for the liberties we now enjoy. Grant that we may not rest until all the people of this land share the benefits of true freedom and gladly accept its disciplines. This we ask in the Name of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Eternal God, in whose perfect kingdom no sword is drawn but the sword of righteousness, no strength known but the strength of love: So mightily spread abroad your Spirit, that all peoples may be gathered under the banner of the Prince of Peace, as children of one Father; to whom be dominion and glory, now and for ever. Amen.

05/24/2026

May 24, 2026

05/17/2026

May 17, 2026

05/14/2026

✨Blessed Feast of the Ascension✨

“While in heaven he is also with us; and we while on earth are with him. He is here with us by his divinity, his power and his love. We cannot be in heaven, as he is on earth, by divinity, but in him, we can be there by love.”
~Saint Augustine

(read more from Augustine’s sermon here: https://www.beafriar.org/post/ascension-of-christ-augustine)

Almighty God, whose blessed Son our Savior Jesus Christ ascended far above all heavens that he might fill all things: Mercifully give us faith to perceive that, according to his promise, he abides with his Church on earth, even to the end of the ages; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, in glory everlasting. Amen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascension_of_Jesus

05/12/2026

fwiw, a little prep for tonight’s Episcopal101 session: spirituality & temperament (ethos & pathos)

05/12/2026

An important listen (~45 min) about shifting trends in the US religious landscape.

How do we engage the curiosity among us and around us and both welcome it and attached to a life of committed religious practice in which our whole being is shaped by prayer and study and service?

By God’s grace, the Church is being called back to the basics, and we’re here for it.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/1x58cZwRhTmKp1S3xdZ7IM?si=t62X5wotQvubQAqilNPThg

The Daily · Episode